A Day to Remember - Homesick [24 bit FLAC] vinyl

A Day to Remember - Homesick (2009) [24 bit FLAC] vinyl

Released: 2009
Duration: 40:29
Genre: Pop/Rock
Style: Alternative, Post-Hardcore
Codec: FLAC
Bit Rate: ~ 5,800 kbps
Bits Per Sample: 24
Sample Rate: 192,000 Hz

01. The Downfall Of Us All
02. My Life For Hire
03. I’m Made of Wax, Larry, What Are You Made Of?
04. NJ Legion Iced Tea
05. Mr. Highway’s Thinking About The End
06. Have Faith In Me
07. Welcome To My Family
08. Homesick
09. Holdin’ It Down For The Underground
10. You Already Know What You Are
11. Another Song About The Weekend
12. If It Means A Lot To You
13. Homesick (Acoustic)
14. Another Song About The Weekend (Acoustic)

Ocala, FL-based post-hardcore outfit A Day to Remember's third full-length offering opens with the blistering "The Downfall of Us All," a hugely melodic slice of metal-infused punk-pop bliss that's sure to land a second life in countless montages on MTV reality shows and 30-second cola commercials. What follows is a collection of perfectly executed and fairly standard clean vocal post-hardcore emo-pop that both revels in and illuminates the limitations of the genre. While lead singer Jeremy McKinnon fulfills his duty as a clean/screamo switch-hitter throughout Homesick, the incessant group vocals provide the thread from which the album was designed. Exciting at first, the constant "yeahs" and "heys" eventually dissolve into the waves of distortion mid-album, resulting in the audio equivalent of an energy drink crash. The band does its best to juggle both worlds on the pretty, simplistic, and anthemic "Have Faith in Me," and closer "If It Means a Lot to You" provides fans with a fine Bic lighter/cell phone light moment, but there's just not enough here to separate it from the deafening, ultimately forgettable, over-compressed slabs of twentysomething angst that came before it.